Animal Welfare Fund
Funding organizations and projects that will help alleviate the suffering of millions or billions of animals.
Our funds back effective projects
Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund
Funding organizations or people that aim to grow or improve the effective altruism community.
Global Health and Development Fund
Funding outstanding, evidence-based opportunities to provide better access to healthcare and economic development.
Long-Term Future Fund
Funding people or projects that aim to improve the long-term future, such as by reducing risks from artificial intelligence and engineered pandemics.
Our fund managers work at
Featured grants with outstanding outcomes
The Center for Responsible Seafood
$117,000
2024 Q4
Research & pilot program on humane chill-killing at Indian shrimp farms to inform global certification standards
$117,000
2024 Q4
Hear This Idea
$6,196.87
2024 Q3
Ongoing support for Hear This Idea, a podcast about ideas for solving important problems
$6,196.87
2024 Q3
Logan Smith
$40,000
2024 Q3
6-month stipend to create language model (LM) tools to aid alignment research through feedback and content generation
$40,000
2024 Q3
Malaria Consortium
$1,690,095.48
2022 Q4
Support of seasonal malaria chemoprevention program
$1,690,095.48
2022 Q4
Our grantmaking approach
01Expected value02Marginal impact03Counterfactual impact04Track record05Information value06Direct and indirect effects07Scope and limitations
Some projects are high-risk with big potential payoffs, while others are safer bets. To compare them, we look at the the potential benefit multiplied by the chance of success. For example:
- 1% chance of $100,000
- 50% chance of $2,000
Both have the same expected value: $1,000. Over time, they’d yield the same average return.
What our grantees have achieved
Driving cage-free adoption in neglected, high-producing countries
Protected children against malaria
Published novel research on mechanistic interpretability methods for language models
Fund managers who’ve overseen tens of millions in effective donations
Caleb Parikh
Project Lead
Karolina Sarek
EA Animal Welfare Fund
Fund Chair
Elie Hassenfeld
Fund Chair
Jamie Harris
Fund Manager
Renata Scarellis
EA Animal Welfare Fund
Fund Manager
Lawrence Chan
Fund Manager